On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:18:52 +0100, Yellow > wrote:

>< lallin writes:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>> > Yellow wrote:
>> > > Every household does not already have a kettle? How do you make tea?
>> >
>> > A kettle is not required to boil water.
>> >
>> > Jill
>>
>> And - tea is not required to sustain life, or even to enjoy life.
>
>If you believe that, you are probably not making the tea correctly.
>
>For black tea, the water needs to be fresh and boiling and if you like
>it white, you need milk, not cream.

Jill probably does tea like my ex mil and most restos... pour hot
water into a cold cup, carry it twenty yards to the table and then
bring a fercocktah no name teabag containing tea leaf dust, saved from
the Chinese take out so folks can plop it into water about the
temperature of fresh ****... this ensures that the tea bag isn't so
extracted from the get-go that four people can share it... my ex mil
was a great hostess, she at least asked to determine who liked their
tea the strongest and so handed the teabag to those in order of
preference, the one who liked strongest got the teabag first... if
Jill starts a new teabag on Sunday by Saturday she's enjoying dirty
socks water. LOL

On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:28:31 -0400, Brooklyn1
> wrote:



> my ex mil
>was a great hostess, she at least asked to determine who liked their
>tea the strongest and so handed the teabag to those in order of
>preference, the one who liked strongest got the teabag first... if

Years ago I knew a woman that hung the bag to dry between uses. Not
sure how many times it was finally used though.

On 8/11/2013 2:34 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> Years ago I knew a woman that hung the bag to dry between uses. Not
> sure how many times it was finally used though.
>
Blech.

In article >,
says...
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 12:28:31 -0400, Brooklyn1
> > wrote:
>
>
>
> > my ex mil
> >was a great hostess, she at least asked to determine who liked their
> >tea the strongest and so handed the teabag to those in order of
> >preference, the one who liked strongest got the teabag first... if
>
> Years ago I knew a woman that hung the bag to dry between uses. Not
> sure how many times it was finally used though.

My brother imports Sainsbury's Red Label into the USA (well, my Mum
sends it to him) and he says that he uses each tea bag at least 3 times.